US History - The 13 Colonies

Immigration
Everyone living in America is an immigrant, descended from immigrants, or from an immigrant family going back at least 12,000 years.

The Colonies that Rebelled Against England

Before 1400 AD, the land that became the United States of America was inhabited by Native Americans and some of the First Nations indigenous peoples. They had all arrived from the northernmost reaches of Asia anywhere from 6,000 to 12,000 years previous with their First Contact with European explorers. They had migrated to the Western Hemisphere in search for more adequate food supplies.

They became the indigenous peoples of North America, incuding the forthcoming nation of America/USA and they were stewards of the earth in these regions

. Buffalo (bison) herds were thousands strong and salmon were giagantically larger than today. The people used every part of each animal that sacrificed its life for them as food, clothing, lodging coverings, bow strings, arrowheads (bone), fuels (fats), color dyes, and more. Nothing was wasted. In the early 1600s, people from Spain, France, Sweden, Holland, and England arrived in this New World (to them it was new) and began staking out claims to lands that the Native Americans already inhabited. I do not know whay they thought it was alright to do this.

♣In the 1490s, Christopher Columbus

searched for a route to India and the Silk Road, but he landed in the New World. While his explorations may have been worthwhile, researchers point to his presence as an intoduction to genocide for Native Americans (see link to the right side.)


♣Among the European nations that rather invaded rather than settled what is now America, England came to the forefront beginning with the Pilgrims landing at Plymouth Rock in 1620, to the development of 13 major colonies along the Atlantic Seaboard through1775, a period of some 155 years (see picture to the right). The history, sociology, and anthopology of the individual Colonies is contained in the link to the right titled Colonial Amerca - 1620 to 1775.

England had other New World colonies, in what is now Canada and in the West Indies, but "The 13 Colonies" were viewed separately when they began to rumble thoughts of breaking with England.
It was once said, "The sun never sets on the British Empire." This is because England evenutally had colonies all over the globe. However, the sun did set on the Empire in America when the Colonies broke away.

♣See on the map of 1775 how my state of Ohio was once part of the Province of Quebec and belonged to the Franch. My maternal grandfather was French and Mohawk. I learned of a Mohawk ancestor (same surname as my grandfather) that translated during the French and Indian War at the Battle of Fort Pitt. He apparently worked for the French rather than their enemies in that war, the British. His descendants lived and migrated throughout Ohio and Pennsylvania. Today, I may have relatives on the First Nations reserves in Quebec or on that which straddles Quebec and New York State.
Thus, I may not have come over on the Mayflower in 1620, but at least part of me was here first, if I may inject some levity.

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